Scott Lanning
Programmer at pair Networks, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Lanning is a seasoned programmer with 24 years of experience specializing in Perl development and MySQL scalability, most notably scaling Booking.com’s backend through a decade of exponential growth. He has deep operational chops—splitting, sharding, and tuning databases while bridging developers and DBAs—and practical experience with Vitess-style clustering and build/test plumbing on prominent open-source projects. His career includes impactful web-backend work at the World Health Organization and ongoing engineering at pair Networks, blending production reliability with pragmatic troubleshooting. With an M.A. in Physics, Scott brings a quantitative, systems-thinking approach to complex infrastructure problems and speaks some French and Dutch, reflecting years living and working in Europe.
23 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at The Ohio State UniversityM.A., Physics, M.A., Physics at Boston University
French, Dutch, Korean, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
go10
devops10
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
testing9
kubernetes9
mysql8
admin7
database7
databases7
database-administration7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 32 PRs, 36 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to improving the build and testing processes and addressing environmental setup issues. They fixed a deprecation warning in `kubectl port-forward`, tackled a Python dependency problem related to `pip` during the build, and documented required Ubuntu packages. The user also suppressed logging errors for package tests, demonstrating a focus on clean test output and troubleshooting build-related problems.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
slanning/Net-Graphite
Dec 2012 - Apr 2020
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Graphite/ for people who don't like to submit diffs
Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 years 5 months
submitdistgraphitediffscpan
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